A numerical investigation of Donald Trump’s appointees Number of years education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos spent on the board of the right-wing Acton Institute think tank : 10 Date on which the Acton Institute published a blog post titled “Bring Back Child Labor” : 11/3/2016 Number of years for which DeVos’s former school-choice advocacy group has owed election fines : 8 Amount they currently owe : $5,300,000 Value of a donation that presidential adviser Jared Kushner’s father pledged to Harvard, where Kushner later received a B.A. : $2,500,000 Of a donation pledged to New York University, where Kushner later received a J.D. and an M.B.A.…

The use of big data systems is expanding faster than the rules or legal infrastructures that manage them. Everyday, transnational companies like Google process more than 24,000 terabytes of data and a few largest banks in the world manage more than 75 terabytes of internal corporate data. Facebook, the parallel world with 1.2 billion users at a time who send 10 billion messages, upload 350 million pictures and 250 million videos, is another hallmark of the rise of big data. TechAmerica Foundation sees big data as characterised by three main factors: volume, velocity and variety. In other words, big data…

There’s been nothing but trouble for much of Africa as the price of oil plummeted 55 percent during the past two and a half years. But there’s a brighter side to the sub-Saharan continent. Unlike Nigeria, where oil accounts for more than 90 percent of exports, or South Africa, which never recovered from the 2008 financial crisis amid weak global demand for commodities, Kenya, the No. 3 economy measured by gross domestic product, is turning the oil debacle into a bonanza. Growing Faster Than Africa's Giants Real GDP, year-over-year percentage change Source: Bloomberg Figures for 2016, 2017 and 2018 are…

NTRODUCTION Scientists and inventors can combine information from an ever-expanding knowledge base dispersed across documents, experiments, and data (1). The Web of Science (WOS) contains 28.4 million publications, including more than 1.5 million new articles published in 2014 alone, sextupling the 1970 rate. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued 287,831 patents in 2013, quadrupling the 1970 rate. Although more knowledge enables more novel ideas to be combined (2, 3), scientists and inventors have limited time to search through the expanding base (4, 5). As the rate of knowledge expansion grows, but the time to search for new knowledge remains fixed,…

Commentary — Seriously, you always hear that we mustn’t deport people because it could break up families. Yet we are encouraging teenagers to run away from their families and try their luck on America’s streets! Latino Invasion Set for New Record More than 17,000 “unaccompanied alien minors” had invaded the US over the Mexican border in the past few months, and the number of “family units” has increased to 21,000, the US House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security has been informed. The House was also told that if the present trends continue, there will be a 30 percent increase…